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By Adam Gaskins

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Blender Tutorial Compilation

Finally getting tired of searching google and youtube for useful Blender tutorials, Adam Gaskins creates an online Blender Tutorial Compilation. Anybody can access it and suggest/create tutorials for it.
http://www.theadamgaskins.com/Blender/

Complete with a mailing list for the most popular/best tutorials!

As of now, I only have like 20 some tutorials. So any suggestions are readily accepted!

The basic guidelines for tutorials are:

  • Audio voiceover: Unless the tutorial is very good, it won't be accepted without a useful audio voiceover. This is mainly what makes or breaks a tutorial.
  • Straightforwardness: An annoying thing with some tutorials, is they aren't straightforward; they're wobbly backwards. Make your tutorials as easy to understand as possible. Walk yourself through your tutorial before you record it. This also can make or break a tutorial
  • Good Quality: This isn't a requirement, but if you have a 320x480 resolution tutorial, it most likely won't be accepted.
If a tutorial meets the first two requirements, and the last one more or less, then it will most likely be added on the site.

By Adam Gaskins

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How to shutdown your computer

There is a command in the command line in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 that lets you shutdown your computer. Combined with the right arguments, you can create a prank on somebody. First create a batch script with this code:

SHUTDOWN -s -t 05


That shuts down the computer after a five second delay. Then, create a shortcut to the batch script on the desktop, and name it whatever. For this example, lets say you named it "Google Chrome". Then assign the shortcut the Google Chrome logo, and delete the real Google Chrome icon. So then, when an unsuspecting person opens Google Chrome, their computer shuts down!


Additionally, you can use the argument -c "text", and it will display "text" during the five second delay.